Police seek 3 men after teen reports month of rapes

Attackers warned they would kill her if she told anyone

A trio of men are wanted for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl who had an abortion after being forced to have sex with the men for nearly a month under the threat of violence.

According to court documents filed Friday, five men raped the girl after taking her to an unoccupied apartment in southwest Houston. They forced her to have sex under the threat of violence and took advantage of her after they smoked marijuana.

Jose Edgar Vazques-Mejia, 20, Kevin Benitez, 19, and Jonathan Benitez, 19, are each charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and are sought by police. Kevin and Jonathan are twin brothers.

The girl told Houston police that, on Feb. 23, she was picked up by Vazquez-Mejia, the Benitez brothers and two other men she identified as Emerson and Eliseo in a car from her apartment. Emerson and Eliseo have not been charged.

After getting the girl, the men got beer, cigarettes and pills and looked for a place to have sex with the girl, the documents state. The men also had marijuana.

The men drove the girl to a southwest Houston apartment complex where there were vacant units, according to court documents. The men started drinking, smoking marijuana and ingesting pills, the girl told police. The men offered her drugs, but she said she declined.

The court filings state the girl started to feel dizzy after the men were blowing marijuana smoke in one of the rooms.

Vazques-Mejia then took the girl into a bedroom of the vacant apartment, taking off her clothes and allegedly sexually assaulting her, state the court documents. After he left, Kevin Benitez then sexually assaulted her, the girl told police.

Following that, the other three men each allegedly sexually assaulted the girl in the same room, the court documents state.

The girl told police she was hurting and could hardly walk when the men later dropped her off at her apartment complex.

According to court documents, Kevin Benitez threatened to kill her or family members if she ever “did him wrong or his boys.” She told police that Vazques-Mejia always had a gun in the back seat of the car while the men continued to sexually assault her.

According to court documents, Vazques-Mejia and the Benitez brothers each sexually assaulted the girl about four to five more times within a month after the Feb. 23 incident. The documents state that Eliseo and Emerson sexually assaulted her two more times after Feb. 23.

The girl told police the men would wait outside of the car while one of them had sex with her inside the car.

On April 20, the girl learned she was two months pregnant, according to the court documents. Her parents went with her to terminate the pregnancy.

The three men charged have not been arrested. Their bond is set at $100,000. Anyone with information about the men is urged to call the Houston Police Department’s sex crimes unit at 713-308-1180.

It is unclear why none of the men have been taken into custody.